Two Palestinian citizens were wounded Tuesday night at the hands of IOF troops that opened gunfire at a Palestinian taxi en route from Al-Khalil city to Shuyukh village northeast of the city.

Witnesses said that the Israeli border guards fired at the car and injured two of the passengers then chased the vehicle that rushed to the town"s clinic to treat the wounded. The border guards arrested one of the two wounded persons and the driver.

Family of the kidnapped wounded man Rajab Al-Halaika, 50, said that he was wounded with a dumdum bullet in his thigh and that he was taken by those guards to the Hadassah hospital in Jerusalem and banned from visits at the pretext he was under arrest.